Alternatively, distraction and
emotional regulation predicted lower levels of negative mood in parents, with problem - focused coping, blaming, worrying, and withdrawal associated with higher levels of negative mood.
Not exact matches
A series of recent studies indicate that mindfulness
predicts better self -
regulation of sleep and improved
emotional and social well being, better psychological functioning, and stronger coping skills.
This
predicts perhaps lifelong problems with
emotional regulation and impulsivity; he may become «a victim of his feelings» later in life, unable to calm down or level his
emotional reactions.
Specifically, negative
emotional reactivity has been found to
predict both internalizing problems (e.g., anxiety, depression) and externalizing problems (e.g., aggression, rule - breaking).1 Fearfulness
predicts internalizing problems, and self -
regulation difficulties
predict externalizing problems.1 The large literature on parenting2 generally shows that high levels of warm and firm parenting are associated with positive child development.4
Vagal
regulation and
emotional intensity
predict children's sleep problems.
Specifically, two components of emotion
regulation (poor
emotional appraisal and self -
regulation) significantly
predicted burnout (Chan 2006), with effective emotion
regulation predicting increased teacher self - efficacy (Chan 2004).
The development of
emotional regulation capacities in children at high versus low risk for externalizing disorder was examined in a longitudinal study investigating: (a) whether disturbances in emotion
regulation precede and
predict the emergence of externalizing symptoms and (b) whether sensitive maternal behavior is a significant influence on the development of child emotion
regulation.
Their negative affectivity, poor emotion
regulation, and imbalances in the different
emotional systems in the brain (e.g., the fear, the care, the seeking systems)
predict both internalizing and externalizing disorders (e.g., depression and aggression, respectively).
Parental responses to children's
emotional expressions have been often taken into account, trying to
predict their effects on child's developmental outcomes; according to recent empirical pieces of evidence, parents» response shows a great variability with relevant implications on offspring's socio -
emotional competences, pro-social behavior, attachment style,
regulation of affective responses, and coping (15).
Specific temperament traits, defined as constitutionally based differences in
emotional reactivity and self -
regulation [6], have been found to
predict behavioral (externalizing) problems and
emotional (internalizing) problems in early childhood in several general population studies [7, 8, 9].
More specifically, having a close
emotional bond, feeling supported in autonomy processes and having (moderately) low levels of separation anxiety toward parents
predict more constructive emotion
regulation mechanisms and coping strategies.
Some support for this hypothesis was found in studies of children's
emotional and behavioural responses during specific stressful events: early maternal depression was found to
predict children's distress in the context of losing a game [13], and children's dysfunctional emotion
regulation in response to witnessing simulated anger between their mother and an adult stranger [14].